Cultivation of stable, reproducible microbial communities from different fecal donors using minibioreactor arrays (MBRAs)

Table 2 Comparison of mean Bray-Curtis and Sorenson similarities for OTUs present in MBRA communities on days 8–21

Reactor type	Within reactor^a	Between replicates^b	Between reactor types^c
Reactor type	Within reactor^a	Between replicates^b	A	B	C	Pool
Bray-Curtis
Donor A	0.73 ± 0.08	0.54 ± 0.07	NA	0.29 ± 0.06	0.26 ± 0.05	0.47 ± 0.08
Donor B	0.79 ± 0.07	0.61 ± 0.08	0.29 ± 0.06	NA	0.25 ± 0.06	0.46 ± 0.10
Donor C	0.73 ± 0.10	0.55 ± 0.07	0.26 ± 0.05	0.25 ± 0.06	NA	0.32 ± 0.07
Pool	0.72 ± 0.09	0.57 ± 0.07	0.47 ± 0.08	0.46 ± 0.10	0.32 ± 0.07	NA
Sorenson
Donor A	0.74 ± 0.05	0.69 ± 0.04	NA	0.55 ± 0.05	0.52 ± 0.05	0.64 ± 0.04
Donor B	0.71 ± 0.05	0.67 ± 0.04	0.55 ± 0.05	NA	0.53 ± 0.05	0.61 ± 0.04
Donor C	0.73 ± 0.04	0.67 ± 0.04	0.52 ± 0.05	0.53 ± 0.05	NA	0.57 ± 0.04
Pool	0.74 ± 0.04	0.7 ± 0.04	0.64 ± 0.04	0.61 ± 0.04	0.57 ± 0.04	NA

^aMean ± SD across all replicates of similarities within each replicate reactor of the indicated fecal type
^bMean ± SD across all pairwise comparisons of similarities between replicate reactors of the same fecal type on days 8-21
^cMean ± SD across all replicates of similarities between reactors of the different fecal types on days 8-21

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